Is abortion offered as default after such diagnoses?
Information released under a parliamentary question has revealed that the State is being sued in two more cases regarding abortion after a misdiagnosis, as happened in the Baby Christopher case in the National Maternity Hospital in 2019 which shocked the country. The 2018 legislation allows abortion to take place without term limits if the […]
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‘Poor medical advice’
NIPT ‘usually wrong’ for rare conditions
When I was pregnant with my baby girl, Líadán, we were advised at a scan that there might be an issue and sent to Dublin to have her checked out. At 24 weeks gestation, she was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, the same condition that doctors mistakenly believed was the prognosis for Baby Christopher Kiely whose […]
The Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD says a public inquiry is needed into the abortion of a healthy baby in the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) after a misdiagnosis – and he has queried why the State is covering the legal costs of the private clinic involved in the testing which led to the abortion. Deputy Tóibín […]
The High Court has fixed a date for an action being brought by the parents of an unborn child who was aborted after doctors mistakenly insisted the baby had a condition which they described as a “fatal abnormality”. The 15-week old baby was aborted in the National Maternity Hospital just months after abortion was legalised in Ireland […]
A full review of the screening process in Irish maternity hospitals has been called for after another shocking story published today revealed a woman considered abortion after the Rotunda wrongly diagnosed a number of anomalies. The Irish Sun reported that “a pregnant woman was told by doctors her baby had a string of serious health problems only for the […]